* April Germany's largest UNIX magazine iX publishes an April fools article about running Linux on the [[Nintendo 64]]. Initially promotion for the Linux/MIPS project and just good fun the article results in inquiries about Linux for N64 for several years.

| April Germany's largest UNIX magazine iX publishes an April fools article about running Linux on the [[Nintendo 64]]. Initially promotion for the Linux/MIPS project and just good fun the article results in inquiries about Linux for N64 for several years.

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| [[Wikipedia:Silicon_Graphics|Silicon Graphics, Inc.]] announces [[R8000|H1]] and [[R8000|H2]]. The two processors are supposed to become successors of the [[R10000|R12000]].

* http://www.heise.de/ix/artikel/1997/04/036/ The German original article

* http://www.heise.de/ix/artikel/1997/04/036/ The German original article

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1997-04-01

April Germany's largest UNIX magazine iX publishes an April fools article about running Linux on the Nintendo 64. Initially promotion for the Linux/MIPS project and just good fun the article results in inquiries about Linux for N64 for several years.